Barney Oldfield

By Lee Stohr: Previously, in Part VI of this series, we covered Walter Christie’s new 1,197 c.i. racing car he built and entered in the French Grand Prix in 1907. Only a month after returning to the USA, on August 10, Christie ran a one-mile exhibition run at Brighton Beach, NY, and entered into an agreement with…

Updated – Barney Oldfield drove the Peerless Green Dragon No. 1 on its first outing in Buffalo, New York, at a track event on August 6, 1904. The photo in Part I of the story apparently was taken during the visit to the Exhibition Place track in Toronto. The photo above appears to show Barney with…

Updated – Barney Oldfield and his exploits with the Peerless Green Dragon Racing car was one of the big news stories on the sports page of the nation’s newspapers in 1904. Oldfield no longer drove Winton’s Racing cars and started driving the first of the three or four Green Dragons. Engineer Louis P. Mooers, who worked for…

On Saturday, January 10, 2015, the San Diego area Horseless Carriage Club of America regions will be gathering to commemorate the centennial of the San Diego Exposition Road Race. The event will be held at the San Diego Automotive Museum in Balboa Park and included in the activities will be a day-long car show and a…

When this photo was taken in 1917 at the original Ascot Park Track in Los Angeles, California, Anita King The Paramount Girl was already a national celebrity. In the image she is seen posing with Barney Oldfield, and his Miller Golden Submarine racing car. The photo is courtesy of Wayne Carroll Petersen, great-great nephew of Barney Oldfield. Two years earlier she had…

Head Librarian Chris Ritter at the AACA Library has uncovered an interesting set of photos showing one of the two Blitzen Benz racing cars that were imported to the U.S. Because of this new discovery we have decided to take a look at other interesting images of the cars beginning in 1910, and press reports…

Barney Oldfield has been no stranger to these pages over the years, as even after his career of driving racing cars in competition was over he became the perfect automotive pitchman. Here we see him promoting the Case Motor Car along with Chicago Cub’s Shortstop Joe Tinker, a Baseball Hall of Famer that was a part of the…

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